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When these baby sloths get mange there’s only one solution: a buzz cut. Then they have to be swaddled in special outfits to keep them warm and mange-free. The documentary by Lucy Cooke about the The Sloth Sanctuary of Costa Rica sloths, titled Meet the Sloths, premieres in the UK on Animal Planet on March [...]read more

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BUCKET OF SLOTHS from Lucy Cooke on Vimeo. Authored by filmmaker Lucy Cooke (Meet the Sloths), A Little Book of Sloth which is a photographic picture book of adorable baby sloths from the Avarios Sloth Sanctuary of Costa Rica. The b...

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Lucy Cooke made a video last year at the world’s only sloth orphanage, The Sloth Sanctuary of Costa Rica. Her sloth project has expanded into a documentary, Too Cute! Baby Sloths that will air on Animal Planet this Sa...

When baby sloths get mange, it can be particularly difficult to treat. Fortunately Judy Avey-Arroyo at the Costa Rican sloth sanctuary has a solution: A shave, a slathering in a special lard mixture, and then swaddling in bandages. ...

Last year Lucy Cooke traveled to The Aviaros del Caribe Sloth Sanctuary (now called The Sloth Sanctuary of Costa Rica) and made Meet the Sloths, an adorable video about the sloths living in the sanctuary. Since then, Cooke has been ...